I Really Want to See You, Grandma
Written and Illustrated by: Taro Gomi
Published by: Chronicle books, 2018
40 pages
International book
Yumi is a young girl from Japan who wants to see her grandma. She travels to
Grandma’s house only to find there is no one home. It turns out that Grandma wanted to see Yumi as well, and they may have passed one another in their travels back and forth. Eventually, they run into each other and designate a tree as their meeting spot just in case this happens again in the future.
Toro Gomi is an author-illustrator from Tokyo, Japan. The illustrations used in this book are significantly detailed based on Gomi’s homeplace with brown shades representing the land and small houses with vibrant colored roofs.
I would read this book in a Kindergarten classroom and use a feltboard in a whole group setting to retell events in the order they occurred. I would then let the students cut and paste Yumi, Grandma, and objects, such as the train, bus, and scooter, and place them on their own storylines to retell the events. This demonstrates the Language Arts standard:
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. [RL.1.2].
I believe that this book is easy to understand, even for the students who can not read. The pictures explain exactly what is going on and the sentences are short and simple for young children.
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